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Both would be very underwhelming for a fourth Gym. It's a shame they evolve so late, Galvantula would be very fitting for her.

Actually, Tynamo is pretty scary with its vast movepool, and Joltik's BST of 319 overwhelming....

All joking aside, I wouldn't ally expect a fashion model to own a giant spider, but I suppose a Zebra is odd as well. Maybe Elesa uses her nw giant cloak, drags it on carpet to charge static electricity, then uses the static electricity to charge Flaaffy?

Originally Posted by Grei

Alternatively, the Pokemon fandom is on a whole entirely unable to be pleased, and no matter what Game Freak does, a loud minority will always ***** about how they could have done it better. :P

Stripes, they are fashionable I do believe, well at less stripes are used for designs. I find Zebstrika to be very fitting for Elesa. Emolga I'm not sure how it would fit in with Elesa being a model but Emolga is clearly meant to be cute so there's that at less.

I'm glad Elesa has a Flaaffy, I don't believe it's ever been used by a Gym Leader(Excluding rematches, which I don't think it was used much then either).

Please explain to me when it was said youd to go through Nimbasa to get to Castelia? No where, I'm recalling. Besides it'd literally be impossible to get there unless you for some reason took a boat to Driftveil. But no, Nimbasa does not come before Castelia.

Have you even payed attention to the new artwork for Unova? You start out in the southwest corner of the region and provided those underwater tunnels don't go to Castelia City you would have to go north to Driftveil, then cross over to Nimbasa and then south to Castelia.

But Tynamo's evolutions are slightly ugly and supermodels don't like spiders.

Is that an official rule?

Originally Posted by HoennMaster

Have you even payed attention to the new artwork for Unova? You start out in the southwest corner of the region and provided those underwater tunnels don't go to Castelia City you would have to go north to Driftveil, then cross over to Nimbasa and then south to Castelia.

Have you paid attention to it? There's no pathway from Virbank to Driftveil. It's all vegetation. Unless the underwater tunnel or a boat brings you to Driftveil, there's no pathway there.

Additionally, the badge case confirms that Castelia is the third Gym, because the Insect Badge's outline is visible. After Virbank, we aren't going to Driftveil, we are going to Castelia, and chances are, it's by underwater tunnel. We've known this for a fairly long amount of time.

Still it would be interesting to see if the underwater tunnels are just visual like the bridges or if battles and stuff happen along them.

As disastrous of consequences I could see for that, I'd love to battle someone in the underwater tunnel. Your rival, maybe? I've never been a fan of gauntlet-style trainer battles (where you literally just walk straight down a road and have trainers challenge you left and right, like on the Nugget Bridge in Kanto or on pretty much any Cycling Road), but having a rival battle there would be cool.

No path up to the Giant Chasm, no paths near Mistralton, path to Tubeline bridge covered in vegetation, the PokéTranfer lab off the main path with no visible path to it, no path over to Route 17. So yeah, no path on the map does not mean there won't be one.

Originally Posted by Grei

Additionally, the badge case confirms that Castelia is the third Gym, because the Insect Badge's outline is visible. After Virbank, we aren't going to Driftveil, we are going to Castelia, and chances are, it's by underwater tunnel. We've known this for a fairly long amount of time.

I already said in an earlier post that I had not seen the badge case before.